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  1. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Interesting. The error here is that netatalk wasn't able to detect a usable network interface for DSI (AFP over TCP). Was networking functioning at all in the container in that state? For instance, exec into a shell in the container and try pinging other server etc. This might be something worth...
  2. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    This page goes into some detail about the current state of AppleTalk support: https://netatalk.io/appletalk
  3. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    I'm using Claude Sonnet 3.5 heavily via the Sourcegraph Cody plugin for my IDE as a coding assistant, which is really handy for drafting boilerplate code, changelogs, release notes, and so on. AI is also invaluable for breaking down and explaining convoluted logic in the Netatalk C code (for an...
  4. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    This is more of a niche project update than usual, but I'm proud to share that as of today I've put in place structures that allow anyone to translate the Netatalk manual to other languages, and have them published on the netatalk.io website in the future. (Or be packaged by distros that package...
  5. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    A quick tally on the Netatalk v4 adoption in downstream distribution channels: The OSes and 3rd party repos that now distribute a version of Netatalk 4 are... Arch Linux Debian GNU/Linux Devuan GNU+Linux Fedora Homebrew Kali Linux Mageia Linux NetBSD OpenBSD OpenWrt PureOS Raspberry Pi OS...
  6. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Netatalk 4.1.0 is available. https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-4-1-0 The standout feature in this version is: When running on a macOS host, afpd now stores Extended Attributes metadata in a macOS native format, rather than as user.org.netatalk.Metadata. This enables...
  7. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Good news: netatalk 4 is now available as a Homebrew formula for macOS (and Linux, for you weirdos who use brew on Linux) If you have brew installed already, just do: brew update brew install netatalk sudo brew services start netatalk If you're using an Intel Mac, this should work out of the...
  8. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Ha! The biggest drawback in my mind is the rigidity of the container once you build it. Unlike a normal Linux system, you can't just go in and, say, edit afp.conf and restart netatalk. When you restart the container its state will be reset and changes to afp.conf lost. This is by design, of...
  9. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    I pushed a few updates to the verbiage this morning. At the time I had a nice long response typed up, but it got lost due to some browser local storage mishap. Gah! Good news: In a few months' time, it will soon no longer be true that you need to build from source to get AppleTalk support...
  10. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    I'm pulling in badges from repology.org that will automatically update when a new version gets packaged. Will do. Or, I might bring back the version comparison table again. This is what I originally had there. Ah, pardon, gcc is the compiler, and Meson is the build system. A build system...
  11. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @JDW The website landing page has been updated a bit, using some of your suggestions and verbiage. Please let me know if you agree that this makes it a bit clearer what the purpose and use case for Netatalk is. I deliberately kept some technical jargon to appeal to the sysadmin crowd. Further...
  12. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @Mk.558 May I suggest we move this troubleshooting thread to GitHub Discussions? https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/discussions This would help to keep the various talking points organized, and easily converted to issue tickets if needed.
  13. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @Mk.558 I have found a fix for the webmin module bug. This is something I broke in the latest version because I tried to do "clever" path substitution in the build system to present the user with the actual default paths to the UAM libs as well as the afppasswd shadow file. However, this clearly...
  14. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Can you please run macipgw with debug output enabled and share the logs? The debug info was very helpful to me when I was having issues on Debian Testing. It will tell you exactly what is happening in the tunnel, data sent and received, etc.
  15. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    My immediate thought here is that Mint may not include the Perl libraries required by Webmin by default. Or shipping a Perl version that doesn't understand the double dollar sign notation... both seem unlikely though. Anyhow, both errors are at lines in the codebase with double dollar sign...
  16. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    I strive to not disappoint! Alrightie then, let's change to the canonical libgcrypt20 for Debian/Ubuntu across the board. A fix will be in the next release. The AppleTalk README has some suggestions how to check for appletalk support. The html format is actually important for us. This is how...
  17. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @Mk.558 Thanks for sharing your notes, as always! First a caveat: I've never used Mint. Wikipedia suggests that it's based on Ubuntu, so I am going to assume that it behaves the same. In Debian and Ubuntu package repos, libgcrypt is an alias (virtual package) for libgcrypt20. Either one should...
  18. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    Thanks for testing! If you're lucky, CUPS will register your printer automatically and papd will pick it up without user intervention. But some manual configuration may be involved, too. Good luck!
  19. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @KennyPowers Ah, of course. I haven't set up cross-compilation in the GitHub bleeding edge docker image job... It seems a bit wasteful to have an extra 10 minute plus job on every push and every PR. We already use some 15.000 minutes of GitHub Actions resources every month, and I don't know...
  20. rdmark

    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    @KennyPowers There's a bleeding edge Docker image available at the GitHub registry now (not on Docker Hub.) https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/pkgs/container/netatalk docker pull ghcr.io/netatalk/netatalk:sha-7d9fad7 If you have the means, please pull this image and see if it solves the...